Dog and Cat Food Nutrition: Page 36

Pet Food Ingredients
NutriFusion formulates nutrient-rich products for pets
NutriFusion, a provider of natural nutrition and phytonutrient products for food manufacturers, has extended its flagship ingredient, GrandFusion, into the petfood sector.
Brand Insights
Sustainability Starts with the Formula: How Smarter Formulation Is Shaping the Future of Pet Food Production
Datacor (formerly Format Solutions)
Discover how pet food manufacturers are reducing emissions and driving sustainability through ingredient innovation and eco-friendly nutrition.
Sustainability Starts with the Formula: How Smarter Formulation Is Shaping the Future of Pet Food Production
Market Trends and Reports
Controlling pet odor through petfood nutrition
Research is constantly being conducted to determine the best ways to balance pet health and wellness and consumer desire to keep their furry friends from smelling up their homes.
True Treats No Fart 1412 Pe Todor
Pet Food Market
New product development: Reinventing the shelf with petfood-enhancing products
"When I looked at the category of petfood toppers, I found it to be absurdly lacking in healthfulness, logic and value,"? Clear Conscience Pet founder Anthony Bennie says. "But the concept of adding a healthy gravy to petfood for a reasonable cost had great appeal for me after selling millions of bags of petfoods and still hearing from a certain percentage of pet guardians that their animals were never really enthusiastic about food, or even worse, didn't eat well regularly at all."
Could petfood enhancers be the NPD sweet spot? Or are there other consumer trends to consider more carefully?
Nutrition
Nutrition and the working canine: More from the power of protein in dog food
Dr. Joseph J. Wakshlag explains the importance of protein, carbohydrates, fat and supplements for working canines in his 2014 Petfood Forum presentation.
Pet Food Ingredients
The power of protein in petfood for dogs
Protein has many functions in a companion animal’s body, but is best known for supplying amino acids to build hair, skin, nails, muscles, tendons, ligaments and cartilage. Protein also plays a primary role in hormone and enzyme production. The protein in petfoods can be supplied by animal sources, plant sources or a combination of the two.
According to Dr. Wakshlag, more recent nutrition research into other sporting breeds like agility and event dogs, detection dogs and hunting dogs is lacking and little research has been done in the past 10 years that examined nutrition, protein and its role in animal athleticism.
Nutrition
Petfood palatability: More information from AFB International
AFB International launched their Palatants Plus blog at www.palatantsplus.com. The blog is designed to share the latest petfood palatability research and developments with petfood industry professionals and how it can enhance petfood performance. Current topics include collaborative innovation, liquid palatants and tracking palatability.
Pet Food Ingredients
Propylene glycol: When, where and how should it be used
Consumers and the media say they want petfoods that are fresh, natural, inexpensive, perfectly formed and appealing to the eye, taste great, and are constantly available to the market regardless of season or supply. The retailers and distributors want petfoods that will last on the shelf for years, appeal to consumers, are encased in beautiful packaging and don’t degrade or get buggy.
Nutrition
Nutrition update: Probiotics and digestive health pet products
Probiotics continue to remain a functional additive in petfoods and are making their way from their now comfortable spot in over-the-counter supplements to new products like cat treats, alternative ingredient premixes and an entire line of puppy to senior dog food. There has been extensive research done to prove these additives like prebiotics, probiotics and other digestive enzymes have beneficial effects on digestive health.
Dogs and cats prone to digestive sensitivity, like soft stool, gastrointestinal distress or diarrhea, may benefit tremendously from a food containing prebiotics and probiotics.
Nutrition
Can adding color to petfoods also add nutritional value?
Soluble dyes have been extensively used in petfood applications because of their ease-of-use, range of colors available and GMP limitations. Natural colors have become an increasingly appealing option for petfood use as they can impart shades that may not be achieved with synthetic colors and make for a much more pet-parent-friendly label.
Gone are the days when added color came in neon hues and chemically enhanced formulas. Natural, fruit- and vegetable-based additives are the new norm.
Pet Food Ingredients
Copper sulfate: A standard of reference for copper in petfood
Copper sulfate is a very common and effective copper source used in petfoods. There have been some recurrent concerns expressed to customer service hotlines and on some enthusiast web sites that copper sulfate is "toxic" and that it "attacks the heart, liver and kidneys" and that it is "moderately poisonous."
Nutrition
Pet supplements roar!
Pet supplements roar! The pet nutraceuticals market has been experiencing rapid growth, showing no signs of slowing down. BY Dr. L. Phillips Brown, DVM Dr. L. Phillips Brown holds a doctorate degree in veterinary medicine (DVM) from the University of California at Davis and a master of science degree
The pet industry is an incredibly dynamic marketplace that is no longer dependant on independent retailers and supermarkets offering only basic necessities.
Nutrition
More on probiotics in petfood
Pathogenic bacteria cause disease and exposure to these is an unpleasant experience.  However, maintenance of the proper microbes in the intestinal tract allows animals to gain nutrients from their food that they cannot absorb from their own digestion.
We are what we eat but are microbes also indicative of where we’ve been?
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